Eric Heisserer Quotes
Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
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When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
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I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
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It's hard to make a movie that is both funny and emotional, that has something to say and is clear to the audience.
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There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
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If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.
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Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
